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January 1957

From the Grass Roots

FLAGGING A CYCLONE

MY PROBLEM IS THE SAME AS YOURS. I was dealt a hand and I couldn't play it. Poor little me. I showed them. I drunked seventeen years of my life away. I got my sobriety the same way Bill W. got his. I got sober, then I got scared and ran to a drunk man and then he got sober and then he and I held on to our sobriety until we could carry it to another drunk. There it is. Stay sober or stay drunk. Get you another drunk and then both hang on to your sobriety until you can get it to another drunk and you've got it. Where to find another sick alcoholic?

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